Bowen Lifts Men's
Basketball to 63-61 Win
BOX SCORE
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Troy Bowen's (Nashua,
NH) layup with two seconds remaining lifted Southern New Hampshire
University to a 63-61 Northeast-10 men's basketball victory over
Pace University at the SNHU Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon.
The win stopped a two-game slide for the Penmen as they improve to
12-11 overall and 9-9 in the NE-10. The Setters dropped their
fourth in a row to move to 9-13 and 8-9 in the league.
Bowen, who finished with 13 points,
all of those coming in the second half, was one of three Penmen in
double figures. Sam Carey (Manchester, NH)
totaled 23 points and 16 rebounds and had a double-double in the
opening 20 minutes (14 pts, 10 reb). Cory
Vejraska (Alachua, FL) added 10 points, while
Chase Miller (Fairfax, VA) handed out nine assists
and had six points on a pair of three pointers.
Gerald Carter (Harlem, NY) registered eight points
and eight rebounds.
Gibraltar White
(Gautier, MS) led Pace with 16 points. Ryan
Williams (Centreville, VA) canned four three-pointers and
finished with 15 points, while Desmond
Quincy-Jones (Rye, NY) added 12 points.
SNHU trailed most of the second
half and was down 54-46 with just over 11 minutes to play when it
scored seven straight to pull within one on a Bowen basket at the
8:02 mark. The Penmen would tie the game 56-56 with just over
five minutes left on a three by Carter and took their first lead
since midway through the first half on a Carey layup that made it
58-56 with 4:03 to play.
Quincy-Jones would make 1-of-2 at
the free throw line on Pace's next possession. Bowen would
extend the lead to four, 61-57, with 3:22 to go on his third three
of the game. Neither team would score again until the 1:32
mark when Williams made 1-of-2 at the line. The two teams
would trade empty trips but Williams would drain a three from the
left corner with 24 seconds left to tie the game at 61-61.
SNHU would call timeout with 17 seconds to play. On the final
play, Miller delivered a baseline pass from the right corner to
Bowen in the post, who would lay it in over a Setter defender with
two seconds left. A final desperation heave by Pace was
blocked.
Pace led 37-29 at halftime and led
by as many as nine early in the second half before a 7-0 run capped
by a Bowen three with 13:49 to go got the Penmen within one,
42-41. The guests would score the next five points to take a
47-41 lead with 12:57 left on a Williams three and got the lead as
high as eight, 54-46, with just under 11 minutes left on a
Jon Jones (Dover, NH) basket.
In a first half that saw a pair of
ties and eight lead changes, Pace would take the lead for good with
7:06 left before halftime on a three-pointer by White that gave the
Setters a 25-24 advantage. The guests closed the half on a
15-5 run and a three by Williams with 47 seconds to play gave Pace
a 37-29 lead at intermission.
SNHU outrebounded Pace 40-29,
including a 15-8 edge on the offensive glass.
Southern New Hampshire returns to
action Wednesday night when it travels to Stonehill College for a
7:30 contest.
